DETROIT, MICH.- For its summer 2019 season, " target="_blank">MOCAD presents the first US museum solo presentation of Bailey Scieszka and the Detroit museum premieres of Mary Helena Clark and Helina Metaferia, along with an exhibition of Eddie Martinez and a new installation in Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead by Nicolas Lobo. These exhibitions join KAWS: ALONE AGAIN, the Museum’s lead exhibition of the season.

KAWS: ALONE AGAIN, is a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (American, born 1974), organized by the Museum of the Contemporary Art Detroit's Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder in close collaboration with the artist. Featuring five sculptures, a site specific wall work, and three paintings, this highly anticipated exhibition occupies the main exhibition space of the museum. ALONE AGAIN showcases the artist's masterful compositions that appear to be abstract while retaining the artist’s colorful acrylic palette with his trademark motif. Riffing on specific genres of pop art, figuration, deconstruction, collage, and fashion, the exhibition represents an underlying irreverence and affection for our turbulent times, as well as KAWS' agility as an artist to appropriate and transform.

Eddie Martinez: Fast Eddie is a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist Eddie Martinez (American, born 1977). Featuring over 12 new paintings, this solo exhibition occupies two gallery spaces showcasing never-before-seen paintings. Martinez’s masterful abstract compositions include the artist’s signature motif of floating heads and gestural sweeping paint strokes. Spanning from popular urban culture to Action Painting, Automatism, and Surrealism.  Martinez's work joins together painting and drawing, abstraction and representation in non-traditional ways.  Permeated with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative elements, such as bug-eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural, abstract blocks of color.  Energetic and raw, his paintings employ an aggressive use of color and texture with various combinations of oil, enamel, spray paint, and collage elements on canvas.

Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at MOCAD presents a new series of works by Nicolas Lobo (b. 1979, Los Angeles; lives in Miami) in a solo exhibition entitled Wellness Center. Miami’s identity as a resort city built atop a crumbling ecology
 is a source of rich contemplation for Lobo’s researchintensive process. His work often focuses on points of friction within the urban milieu, from informal markets— transnational multi-service shops and relics of the leisure industry.  In recent work, the Miami-based artist has focused on ways in which the human body extends into the socioeconomic, spanning between individual and collective space.

Wellness Center is conceived specifically for Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at MOCAD, in which Lobo, concerned with the tension between labor and leisure imagines wellness and healing from a variety of collective harms; presenting a prototype for utilities of a new kind.

Unboxing: Doublespeak explores the boundaries between storytelling, self-perception, and moving image through a series of film and video installations. An ensemble of artists and filmmakers that includes Bailey Scieszka, Mary Helena Clark, Laure Prouvost, and Helina Metaferia engage the human voice as both material and technology—confronting its capacity as a narrative device, a vehicle for rendering history, and a means of individual empowerment. This suite of moving image and experimental media is comprised of new works and regional premieres, and accompanied by a public program series. Doublespeak is the first installment in Unboxing, an ongoing series of exhibitions, screenings, and performances dedicated to emerging ideas at the crossroads of technology, media, and contemporary art.